Link Roundup
Becca Gilman • May 19th, 2009I don’t feel up to it, but here’s a link roundup, in honor of Grant. (link to Grant Lee, RIP)
San Jose Mercury News
The Silicon Valley’s home sales continue to tank with the number of deals at a 40-year low. The mayor of San Jose attributes the market crisis to the glut of homes belonging to the recently deceased.
The Burlington Free Press reports that a May 3rd session of Congress ended with the sudden death of a Missouri Representative William Hightower and senator Jim Billingsly from Vermont. While neither Hightower nor Billingsly has been seen publicly since the 3rd, the offices of both congressmen have yet to make any such announcement and their only official comment is to claim the story is patently false.
The Miami Herald reports that according to UNICEF, the populations of children in Kenya and Ethiopia have declined by a stunning 24 percent within the past year. The UN and United States government dispute the findings, claiming widespread inaccuracies in the “hurried and irresponsible” census.
May 24th, 2009 at 7:48 pm
Reputable sources at a quick glance, but let’s address each link:
The San Jose Mercury News has already issued a partial retraction here. The mayor of San Jose never attributed the market crisis to the supposed glut of homes belonging to the deceased. Honestly, other than within the backdrop of our collective state of paranoia/hysteria, such a claim/statement doesn’t make any economic sense. People aren’t buying homes for a myriad of economic reasons, but too many deaths due to an imaginary epidemic isn’t one of them.
The links to your burlington and miami papers are dead. I suppose you could spin the dead links to bolster the conspiracy theory, but here in reality, the dead links serve only as a representation of your desperation to perpetuate conspiracy.
May 25th, 2009 at 7:03 am
Ever heard of Google, Jenn? Those articles can still be found in the cache. It’s not a hard to find. Do you want me to show you how?
May 25th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Why were the articles almost instantaneously removed? You’ll tell me it’s due to some all-encompassing conspiracy, when the real answer is those papers got their stories wrong so they had to pull the articles. Happens all the time. I guarantee retractions will be published within days. Oh-master-of-Google, prove me wrong by finding another news-outlet corroboration to either story. Read carefully, please. I want a news-outlet that does not site the Burlington Free Press or Miami Herald as their primary sources. If you try such a search, you’ll be at it for a long time, because I can’t find any other independent reports.
May 25th, 2009 at 10:13 pm
I’ve called Billingsly’s office on three occasions, and I’ve been told he’s unavailable every time.
May 25th, 2009 at 10:23 pm
Oh, that proves everything, then.
May 26th, 2009 at 8:27 am
BEES and BATS and AMPHIBIANS are disappearing, mysteriously dying off (are you going to refute that too, Jenn?). Is it so hard to believe that the same isn’t happening to us?
June 25th, 2009 at 3:37 am
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August 22nd, 2009 at 10:46 am
Humans are harder to kill than cockroaches.