A.P. chides the Christie administration for failing to meet the July 1st deadline for implementing New Jersey’s new medical marijuana law, and strongly suggests putting The Dude in charge. RELATED: New Jersey To Delay Medical Mary Jane
SCRAPPLE TV NEWS: With A.P. Ticker
A.P. reports on dope in Delaware and everywhere, the on-camera meltdown of a NC senator, the death of his buddy Jimmy Dean, World Cup fever, and Pete Rose’s corked bat.
SCRAPPLE TV NEWS: Life Lessons
With your life coach, A.P. Ticker.
STINKTASTIC: Welcome To The Tea Farty
Brilliant. A web site that re-Tweets the bile coming from Tea Party-affiliated Twitter streams in the form of a noxious cloud emanating from a the butt of a faceless patriot, complete with flatulent sound effects. Check it out HERE. PREVIOUSLY: Last Night I Sneaked Into The Tea Party
SCRAPPLE TV NEWS: With Your Host AP Ticker
This week A.P. dishes on Ed Rendell threatening to lay off 20,000 state employees, wishes the War In Afghanistan a happy 8th birthday, discusses Ryan Howard’s love life, and reveals that he is rooting for North Korea to win the World Cup — all before having an on-camera meltdown, tearing off his clothes and storming off the set.
MEDIA: When It’s Later Than You Think
HUFFINGTON POST: Last week, Israeli commandos boarded a relief ship attempting to break the blockade of the Gaza Strip and, during a clash with pro-Palestinian activists, shot nine people to death. It was an old-fashioned, bona fide “international incident,” a fiasco that raised alarming questions about the current trajectory of Israel’s security, the wisdom of its government, as well as the fate of Obama’s Middle East policies and U.S. security in general. Within a few days, though, the Washington media’s “Israel narrative” abandoned those questions and focused instead on the ugly words and sudden retirement of cranky 89-year-old White House […]
Is It Time To Time To Rename The Fencl Award?
[Illustration by ALEX FINE] DAILY NEWS: IT WAS a joke. It had to be a joke. That was the only thought that entered Officer Richard “Butch” Riddick’s mind last week when he was told by the Daily News that he was the winner of the 25th annual George Fencl Award. MORE DAILY NEWS: George Fencl died in January, 1985. At the time he was chief of security for the Philadelphia School District, having retired from the Police Department with the rank of chief inspector in 1983, after 33 years on the force. Soon after his death, Chuck Stone, then senior […]
PHILADELPHIA WEEKLY: The Khyber Past
[Illustration by ALEX FINE] BY JONATHAN VALANIA FOR THE PHILADELPHIA WEEKLY On the afternoon of Nov. 26, 2008, death came ashore at the Indian coastal city of Mumbai in the form of 10 Pakistani assassins aboard a rubber dinghy. Young and cocky, the killers were dressed in bluejeans and cargo pants, pumped up on steroids and ripped from months of rigorous physical training. They brandished AK-47s and carried backpacks loaded with grenades and ammo. When fisherman asked them what was going on, the gunmen told them in fluent Marathi to, in effect, go fuck themselves. The fishermen reported the incident […]
TIME HAS COME TODAY: Sestak Beats Specter
JOE SESTAK: “I respect the man, but it is time. It is time for a different generation.” 9:47 PM: Sestak is currently up by 13,000 with 42% of the vote counted. Reportedly two thirds of the Philadelphia vote has already been counted. Specter’s only hope was the African American vote and it appears that he didn’t get it, or at least not enough of it to make a difference. Because this is the Internet, where being first trumps being right, we are going out on a limb here and declaring Joe Sestak the winner. 10:12 PM: Associated Press just called […]
SPECTER VS. SESTAK: The Thrilla In Pennsylvania
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW: Pennsylvania voters go the polls Tuesday for a primary election that could determine more than who bears the Democratic and Republican standards in November. The results will measure Obama’s influence with voters, the credibility of party hierarchies, the fate of a Capitol’s worth of incumbents, and the mood of a key swing state. “What’s at stake is the message to Washington and the political direction of our country,” said Lara Brown, political science professor at Villanova University. “It could literally moderate all the policy in Washington.” MORE DICK POLMAN: Two Capitol Hill insiders have been summarily dumped by […]
SCRAPPLE TV NEWS: With Your Host AP Ticker
AP goes off on the big fake ID scandal at PennDOT and the teacher hiring freeze at Philadelphia School District, plus the Flyers rocked and Lady Pha Pha got cold-cocked. Get in here!
NPR FOR THE DEAF: We Hear It Even When You Can’t
FRESH AIR Philadelphia Daily News reporters Barbara Laker and Wendy Ruderman received the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting for the 10-month series “Tainted Justice,” an expose of alleged corruption among members of an elite narcotics squad on the Philadelphia police force. During their reporting, Laker and Ruderman uncovered allegations against officers that included committing sexual assaults, disabling surveillance cameras during drug raids to hide their misdeeds, and filing fraudulent warrants. During several raids, the police allegedly stole thousands of dollars in merchandise and money from small retailers. As a result of Laker and Ruderman’s investigation, hundreds of drug cases […]
SCRAPPLE TV NEWS: Piggy Of The Week
A.P. takes on Comcast-Spectacor chairman Ed Snider for continuing to shove his Republican views down the throat of a city that is overwhelmingly Democratic.