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Morning Newsdome: Pirates everywhere!

Friday, April 10th, 2009

Morning Newsdome: Obama wants immigration reform

Thursday, April 9th, 2009
    With Obama's push, immigration will again become a hot button issue

    With Obama's push, immigration will again become a hot button issue

    (Photo by Joeff Davis)

    Morning Newsdome: Pirates are really not that fun

    Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

    Another state legalizes gay marriage…If we are not careful pretty soon we might have gay men in the streets of Atlanta in their underwear kissing in the rain.

    Morning Newsdome

    Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

    >> Italian earthquake’s death toll continues to climb and as some survey the wreckage they call it “a disaster never before seen.” I guess this doesn’t count?

    >> SPENDING GUBMENT MONEY: At least they won’t be using it to build more condos no one can afford. But I don’t see any allotments to fix all those fabulous Atlanta potholes…

    >> Obama’s tour of Europe ends with him inciting Turkish students to “build bridges not walls.” Apparently, happy metaphors go over well with this crowd.

    >> A huge percentage of American teachers are Baby Boomers and are therefore all set to retire around the same time. Somehow the recession is good news for this coming catastrophe…

    >> Communities begin printing their own currency to stay ahead of the recession game. PIck up your stack of Detroit Cheers today.

    >> WTF?: How about not wasting everyone’s time and taxpayer money to kill yourself, oh cowardly and crazy pilot-man?

    >> Things that were were probably not on Gisele Bundchen’s wedding gift registry: bullets.

    (Photo by Joeff Davis)

    Morning Newsdome: Looking at the real cost of war

    Monday, April 6th, 2009

    Morning Newsdome: The party of obstructionism

    Friday, April 3rd, 2009

    (Photo by Joeff Davis)

    Morning Newsdome

    Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

    >> Gordon Brown and Obama, sitting in a tree…first comes love…

    >> G-20: A bunch of overlords are still meeting to decide the world’s economic fate. Because that worked out so well the last several times.

    >> Not an April Fool’s joke, guys. “Guiding Light” will bite the dust come September and there’s nothing you can do about it. Really, why would you want to?

    >>DROWSY DRIVING: Cars don’t kill people. Sleepy people kill…people?

    >> The International Herald Tribune has officially folded into the New York Times, becoming just its “Global Edition,” as evidenced by its website’s new NYT style conformity. For some reason, I find this to be really upsetting.

    >> DEPRESSING: Or is that Depression? Readers from around the world share photos of the “Recession” and how it’s manifesting where they live.

    >> Sweden becomes fifth European country to allow same-sex marriage. Come on America, Europe is kicking our ass in everything — currency, international respect and now human decency. Let’s get it together.

    Morning Newsdome: Obama goes to China!

    Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

    Morning Newsdome

    Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

    Allatoona Lake during the drought was 18 feet below normal.

    >> Ding dong, the wicked drought is dead. All those miserable rainy days were good for something!

    >> More than 200 African migrants believed dead after a boat carrying them from various African countries to an Italian island capsized.

    >> ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST: Sun-Times Media Group, parent company of the Chicago Sun-Times, goes bankrupt.

    >> Two Current TV reporters have been arrested in North Korea while reporting on the Communist country’s fleeing citizens. The American journalists will be tried for their supposed “hostile acts” against the country, otherwise known as thinking freely.

    >> Want to be all that you can be? Oh well, you’re too fat for all that.

    (Photo by Joeff Davis)

    Don’t Panic!: How can I avoid joining al-Qaeda by mistake?

    Monday, March 30th, 2009

    ATTENTION JOB SEEKERS

    Don’t be discouraged by the nation’s ballooning unemployment figures. There are plenty of great jobs out there. You just need to start being creative about where you look, and open-minded about what kind of jobs you’re willing to take.

    For example, if you’re a physically fit black man who enjoys acting in non-sexual wrestling videos, you can earn a quick $125 simply by visiting Craigslist and answering the ad titled “Black Muscular Males For Nonsexual Wresting Videos.”

    Unemployed sugarbabies in the Southeast United States take note: Craigslist also features a help-wanted ad posted by a self-described Miami “sugardaddy” who travels to Georgia for work.

    At the moment, he’s looking for an Atlanta sugarbaby with whom he can enjoy dancing, golf, fishing, and jai alai. “Pay is cash for time spent together. Obviously the more time we see each other, the more pay.” Obviously.

    For my international reader(s), the recent London Review of Books features a classified ad that reads simply, “Lesbian, 30, wants man’s cock to play with. Also balls.” I’m not sure if it’s for money or if, in this case, the work is its own reward.

    Good luck on your job hunt, but be very careful. There are a lot of people out there trying to take advantage in these desperate economic times.

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    Morning Newsdome: Auto bailout FAIL

    Monday, March 30th, 2009

    Afternoon Newsdome: T.I. to jail

    Friday, March 27th, 2009

    (Photo by Joeff Davis)

    Morning Newsdome: Here come the regulators

    Thursday, March 26th, 2009

  • Tourism down 16 percent in Atlanta
  • Obama Administration wants to go all Warren G on large financial corporations.
  • (Don’t) keep ‘em high: Number of workers claiming unemployment benefits sets a new record.
  • Sec. of State Hillary Clinton sez we’re also partly responsible for Mexico’s drug violence.
  • First repeat customer for the space tourism industry.
  • Please don’t hurt ‘em: Experts call for more circumcision (commence squirming).
  • Nintendo president announces Wii storage, arcade games on the virtual console.
  • (Photo by Joeff Davis)

    Morning Newsdome

    Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

    How do you brand endless war?

    >> Obama held another lecture-intensive primetime news conference, attempting to inspire confidence in a nation of critics.

    >> Home sellers are angry that buyers are “lowballing” them, also known as offering to pay the homes’ real worth. Not the real estate-bubble inducing fantasy price based on speculation and high hopes.

    >> ATLANTA IS FULL STEAM AHEAD: Things to be happy about… um, this?

    >> Things that don’t sound right — “stress-management classes surrounded by concrete blast walls.” And military officials are confused as to why suicide is a huge problem for American troops?

    >> UPRISING: Down with parking meters!

    >> Gay advocates think New England could be a “marriage equality zone” by 2012.

    >> SPEECHWRITING SPECIFICS: The War on Terror is in death throes. Make way for the Overseas Contingency Operation.

    (Photo by Andisheh Nouraee)

    Morning Newsdome: I demand a bailout

    Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

    Two American journalists have been detained and transfered to North Korean capital as the country prepares for a “satellite launch.”

    President Obama will give another prime-time news conference tonight to try and sell the public on his economic plan… again.

    Bailout for consumers? Senate considers bill to provide relief for credit card holders.

    The anti-newspaper: NPR reaches record ratings.

    Japan wins second straight World Baseball Classic.

    What the hell, let’s join the party and blog about Octomom: Nadya Suleman fires free-of-charge nanny.

    (Photo by Joeff Davis)

    Morning Newsdome

    Friday, March 20th, 2009
    Training the youth of today for the jobs of tomorrow

    Training the youth of today for the jobs of tomorrow

    >> ARMY STRONG?: The unemployment rate for recent military veterans has risen higher than the civilian jobless rate. Wasn’t there some sort of propaganda advertisement about being able to do any job once you got out of the military…?

    >> CRAZY TALK: Australia to ban Google? How will anyone look up anything?!

    >> Obama appeals directly to the people of Iran in a video message claiming a commitment to diplomacy.

    >> The House passes a super-tax to get back all that AIG bonus money. In other news, many Republicans’ heads exploded yesterday.

    >> BRIDEZILLAS ATTACK!: Atlanta’s Filene’s Basement was the last place any non-bride would want to be this morning. But the best place for those zany brides-to-be!

    (Photo by Alex Gibbs)

    Morning Newsdome

    Thursday, March 19th, 2009

    >> Atlanta’s very own Ponzi schemer! So proud to be front and center of national trends…

    >> In today’s economy, you have to give up more than Starbucks to survive.

    >> SERIOUSLY?: The world is falling apart but this idiot thinks it’s fun to create distracting million-node botnets. Whatever that is.

    >> Actress Natasha Richardson is taken off of life support after being left brain-dead from a skiing accident.

    >> JUST LIKE US!: The French populus is as ornery as Americans. Except they started marching about it and (real) Americans just listen to these guys.

    >> Because Dubya needs to be even wealthier than he is, Crown Publishing inks a $7 million book deal with Bush for him to share the “reasoning” behind all his awesome decisions.

    >> SCARY: Public anger toward AIG has employees concerned for their safety. A little perspective from the people left behind…

    Morning Newsdome

    Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
    Work here! They give out million dollar bonuses.

    Work here! They give out million dollar bonuses.

    >> Congress is outraged over the AIG bonuses given out, with many insisting that the 73 employees given $1 million or more in bonus money should return it. Especially those 11 people who took their “retention bonus” and then quit.

    >> TWITTERVIEW: McCain knows how to use new technology but is apparently still going senile. It’s OK if you don’t remember you backed the bailout. We do!

    >> The Austrian man who held his daughter and six of her children captive for 24 years decided not to lie about it, pleading guilty to the plethora of charges leveled against him.

    >> The music portion of South by Southwest kicks into gear this week.  The NY Times has insights into last week’s film and interactive portion coupled with projections for the coming crush of musicians, industry-types and fans.

    >> Please don’t call these people “media members.” More like highly-paid professional stalkers.

    >> Pissed off about Facebook’s face lift but can’t quite put your reasoning into words? Here it is, all explained for you.

    >> DAMNED IF HE DOES, DAMNED…: Some complain that Obama is trying to do too much, others complain he isn’t doing enough. Public opinion is just so much FUN.

    (Photo by Joeff Davis)

    Morning Newsdome: Newspaper deathwatch ticks on

    Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

    Morning Newsdome: The left wins again

    Monday, March 16th, 2009
    Crowd at the at the FMLN victory celebration, March 15, 2009 at Masferrer Plaza in San Salvador, El Salvador.

    Crowd at the at the FMLN victory celebration, March 15, 2009 at Masferrer Plaza in San Salvador, El Salvador.

    (Photo by Joeff Davis)

    Morning Newsdome: Madoff goes to jail

    Friday, March 13th, 2009

    Morning Newsdome: Madoff pleads guilty

    Thursday, March 12th, 2009

    Morning Newsdome: How many more shootings?

    Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

    Morning Newsdome

    Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

    >> HA!: Britney Spears’ tour is drug free this time around. Maybe they should drug test the set designer then. Seems likely that whole circus thing was LSD-influenced.

    >> Obama drops some knowledge on the country — literally — proclaiming that policy decisions will now be influenced by science and facts. Instead of using The Decider’s reasoning of because I said so.

    >> PISSING OFF DALAI: On the 50th anniversary of Tibet’s uprising against China, the Chinese military increases its numbers in the streets of Tibet and cell phone reception has suddenly gone all spotty. But China swears it isn’t doing anything out of the ordinary to counteract potential protesting…

    >> Um, yeah, I would call 66 pounds of cocaine a “significant find”…

    >> SHOCKING: The New York Times tracks down a bunch of wealthy folk (some from Atlanta!) and listens to them lament their overspending ways of yore. Suddenly it’s cool not to measure your worth by the price tag on your Gucci bag.

    (Photo by Joeff Davis)

    Morning Newsdome

    Friday, March 6th, 2009

    >> California considers vote on upholding Proposition 8 and Kenneth Starr (remember that awesome dude?) has an opinion. Surprise, surprise.

    >> Brad Pitt unleashes the sexy on D.C. and no one is immune.

    >> Sanjay Gupta, the great Atlanta hope for some stake in the Obama administration has withdrawn his name from consideration. Say it ain’t so!

    >> In the ongoing Chrisanna saga, Chris Brown appears in court after being charged with two felonies. Don’t lie to yourself, you know you care.

    >> A British aquarium’s super genius octopus is far better at providing food for itself than America’s Octomom. Well, somewhat. At least it doesn’t require the assistance of taxpayers.

    >> Craigslist is selling more than sofas and some people aren’t fans of the other wares for purchase.

    >> IT’S BRITNEY, BITCH: So, no drugged-out mess performance for Atlanta — the youngish pop star is back in top form. Check out the pics from Spears’ concert last night.

    (Non-celebrity related photo by Joeff Davis)