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HORRIBLE day in the Market! HORRIBLE! Yet, you can hold your chin up and crack a small smile. The old Grey Lady, New York Times, the most dispicable piece of liberal trash being published today, finished the trading session at its lowest price ever. NYT is under $6.00! LOL! Good riddance to bad rubbish!

Price: $7.68 Last 0.59-7.04% Today’s Change 8.27 Today’s Open $8.29 Day High $7.79 Day Low $7.68 Volume 717,036

Will Pinch Sulzberger Lose The New York Times? Monday , October 01, 2007 By Thomas Lifson Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., known all but universally as "Pinch", may well be the last member of the Sulzberger/Ochs family to run the world-famous newspaper company. He is trapped in a financial and competitive trap of his own making, and may have to rely on new money coming into the company at the price of relinquishing his managerial power. Christopher Alleva already explained last week that the incredible shrinking equity resulting from the combination of high dividends and low profits is already raising questions...

Having failed to thwart a Murdoch purchase of the WALL STREET JOURNAL, the NEW YORK TIMES intensifies battle with the NEWS CORP. empire on Thursday, newsroom sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT. The paper is preparing a provocative examination of Republican presidential contender Rudy Giuliani's relationship with FOX NEWS chief Roger Ailes. MORE TIMES reporter Russ Buettner has been pestering and pumping Murdoch executives for details on Rudy and Roger, company sources claim. The duo "have been pulling for each other for nearly two decades," reports Buettner. "Ailes served as a consultant to Giuliani's first mayoral campaign. Giuliani officiated at Ailes'...

In March, for the first time in the nation’s history, a federal appeals court struck down a gun control law on Second Amendment grounds. Only a few decades ago, the decision would have been unimaginable. READ THE REST HERE: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/us/06firearms.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a slim summary today trimming down thousands of pages of its massive overall Fourth Scientific Assessment on global warming, which will be released in May. It is hoped that the "Summary for Policymakers" will be an accurate distillation. Hundreds of scientists have been involved in the review process, and it is safe to say that means hundreds of bored scientists, because there is very little in it that is scientifically new. For example, it will report with increasing certitude that humans are responsible for most of the surface warming that began in...

Ediors of the New York Times killed a column by Pulitzer Prize winner Dave Anderson that disagreed with an editorial about Tiger Woods and Augusta National's refusal to admit women as members.A column by sportswriter Harvey Araton was also zapped, sources said, because it differed with the papers editorial opinion about the golf club standoff.The moves came amid extensive coverage of the exclusive Georgia club under former editorial page editor Howell Raines, who has called for high impact stories since becoming executive editor last year.

One's heart goes out to Maureen, who clearly fears that her life's journey in the end, will have been a solo flight. There will be brief layovers here and there -she and Howell Raines (& Michael Douglas) were apparently an item at one time-but nothing lasting. And so the deathbed will be lighly attended, there will be no spouse or children to shout the Beautitudes as the Angel of Mercy's wings are heard fluttering in the parlor. The only people who visit her grave will be the groundskeepers, who might occasionally bounce dice off her tombstone. (ouch!) Yet the fact...