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360 comments on DrumBeat: July 30, 2006

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slx on July 30, 2006 - 12:49pm

We should not call it anything, because it has never happened. The MSM are always right, or they wouldn't be the MSM. Soon, there will be no people left who didn't "knew it all along". In fact, it went perfectly as planned. Trust Big Brother.

"Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct; nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary."
- G. Orwell, 1984

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rg144 on July 30, 2006 - 6:28pm

So true. But we can still call it something. When 2.8 million people (or some subset) are reading it on the back of the front page on a hot summer morning, simultaneously ...

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slx on July 31, 2006 - 4:41am

We can call it the start of the decline rate of the production of blissful ignorance. ;)

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Mad Maxout on July 31, 2006 - 5:47pm

Maybe we can call the day before the publishing Peak Ignorance. I read the article too. Plus, you can see more on the Tribune web site at www.chicagotribune.com/oil and you get some videos too. I have seen occasional PO stuff in the media, like the National Geographic explaining the shrinking (and now gone) swing producer wiggle room.

It's about time. Oh, the heatwave caused a NG spike. $8.10/million BTUs.

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