Posted on 08/06/2004 12:24:58 PM PDT by weegee
One of the only reason I read the Houston Barnicle is for the newest victims of the "Train of Pain".
Houston PING
Media Schadenfreude and Media Shenanigans PING
I stopped my subscription four years ago. This is a Democrat rag and will do anything to get Democrats into office.
When the DNC convention started, I found a Houston Commiecal in my front yard every day. In all fairness, I still find the Commiecal in the yard every morning. I wonder if this will continue through the RNC convention.
By the way. The garbage man finds the unopened newspaper bag every Monday and Thursday.
On an unrelated note, this paper really needs to be shut down.
I assume that the "Train of Pain" is the same one that is also refered to as the "Wham Bamm Tram"
The Columbia Tribune drops a free one on my doorstep every Wednesday, even though I cancelled my subscription months ago.
I suspect it is so they can fraudulently claim me as a subscriber to keep their advertising rates up.
PING!
Meanwhile, here in Austin, a recall drive has begun on the Mayor of Austin and one City Councilman who okayed the new regional toll road plan.
And the rest of the "metro" crowd is now pushing blight rail, metrorail, cable cars, trams, segues and bike lines.
http://www.chronicallybiased.com/index.php?itemid=1150
August 06, 2004, 07:02 AM
DMN admits to inflated circulation numbers
By Anne Linehan
Kind of interesting to see this in the Chronicle today:
The Dallas Morning News overstated circulation for its daily and Sunday editions, and its top circulation executive has resigned, the paper's parent company said Thursday.
Belo Corp. said the newspaper overstated its daily circulation by 1.5 percent and Sunday circulation by 5 percent, mostly because of a 1999 change in the way the paper counted unsold returned copies.
And then this hilarious paragraph:
Based on a revision of those figures, the Houston Chronicle would have moved ahead of the Morning News in Sunday circulation and extended its lead daily.
Because we all know the Chronicle doesn't inflate its numbers!
Only a handful of bicyclists ever use the "bike lanes" and many of these are people trying to get an exercise workout, not commuters going to work.
Many of the stripped lanes have since been repainted.
In Amsterdam, the bicyclists actually have the right of way over pedestrians and they let you know it.
I enjoy reading about socialist mass transit boondoggles, and like the "Train of Pain" and "Wham Bamm Tram" monickers.
Do you have other names for this train I can add to my list ?
LOL
Not really, I just kinda dreamed up the "Wham Bamm Tram" thingy the last time an accident was reported here on FR.
Houston, has/had a bus system the last time I was down there. Appeared to do what it was supposed to do.
Never figured out why they thought they needed a "danged ole train"
Betcha if you looked deep you will find a bunch of fat cats in the local government that made fortunes off this boondoggle
My family refers to the train as "The Grim Reaper". I have never seen one piece of equipment claim so many lives.
Worst paper in Texas Bump!
Glad I move from Houston after all those forkers moved in!
BTW, Bender does not speak for me, Houston is my favorite city in the whole world! If only those forkers hadn't moved in...
};^D)
If this wasn't a "public utility", the N.S.T.B. would have stopped this operation long ago.
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